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Django management commands for the JSBuilder commands in Sencha SDK Tools. Unfortunately, the JSBuilder commands provided by Sencha Tools needs some workarounds to work when the HTML document and resources are not in the same directory. We have turned these workarounds into a Django management command available in the djangosenchatools app.
Issues/contribute
Report any issues at the github project page, and feel free to add your own guides/experiences to the wiki, and to contribute changes using pull requests.
Install
Install the python package:
$ pip install djangosenchatools
Add it to your django project:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'djangosenchatools'
]
Usage
First, we need a Django ExtJS4 application. See django_extjs4_examples for an example application. We use the minimal_extjs4_app as our example.
Note
The senchatoolsbuild management command runs collectstatic.
Note
You need to run the Django server (manage.py runserver) for all commands except --listall.
Build one app
Run:
$ python manage.py senchatoolsbuild --url http://localhost:8000/minimal_extjs4_app/ --outdir /path/to/outdir
With --url and --outdir, the senchatoolsbuild command runs sencha create jsb and sencha build, and puts the result in the --outdir. Run with -v3 for full debug output if you want to see what the command does.
Build all INSTALLED_APPS
senchatoolsbuild can autodetect sencha apps and build them all in their respective static directories. Run with --help and see the help for --buildall to see how apps are detected.
To list detected apps, their --outdir and --url, run:
$ python manage.py senchatoolsbuild --listall
Add -v3 to see skipped apps, and why they are skipped.
To build all detected apps, run:
$ python manage.py senchatoolsbuild --buildall
Build one app by name
You can build a single app in INSTALLED_APPS using the same method of detecting outdir and url as --buildall using --app:
$ python manage.py senchatoolsbuild --app minimal_extjs4_app
Using --watch
Use --watch to automatically rebuild on file changes:
$ python manage.py senchatoolsbuild --app minimal_extjs4_app --watch /path/to/directory/containing/minimal_extjs4_app
Use -v2 for debug out. By default, only *.js-files trigger rebuild events, however you can change this using these settings (shown with their defaults):
#: Files to include DJANGOSENCHATOOLS_WATCH_INCLUDE = ['*.js']
#: Files to exclude #: - Matched after INCLUDE, so you can include a general pattern, and #: exclude specific files or dirs. DJANGOSENCHATOOLS_WATCH_EXCLUDE = ['..swp', '~', '.pyc', '*.pyo',
_Note_: All patterns match against the absolute path of the file.
Integration with django_extjs4
This app is made to work with django_extjs4, however they are losely coupled. The only place where you are likely to notice that they work together is that senchatoolsbuild checks that settings.EXTJS4_DEBUG==True. You can disable this check using --no-check-settings.
Building apps that require authentication
Add the following to your settings.py:
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += ['djangosenchatools.auth.SettingUserMiddleware']
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('djangosenchatools.auth.SettingUserBackend',)
SENCHATOOLS_USER = 'myuser'
Where SENCHATOOLS_USER is the user that you want to be authenticated as (the user must exist). NEVER use this backend/middleware in production.
Reccommended setup
We reccommend that you create a separate settings.py for senchatoolsbuild where you set the required settings. Here is our djangosenchatools_settings.py:
from settings import *
EXTJS4_DEBUG = True
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += ['djangosenchatools.auth.SettingUserMiddleware']
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ('djangosenchatools.auth.SettingUserBackend',)
SENCHATOOLS_USER = 'grandma'
We use this settings module whenever we build apps using senchatoolsbuild:
$ python manage.py senchatoolsbuild --buildall --settings djangosenchatools_settings
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